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...Champs Elysées a pert little streetwalker, old enough to remember tussles with loud and lusty liberating G.I.s in the Place Pigalle, tolerantly watched a fat and fatherly U.S. Army master sergeant padding down the street, Leica and guidebook in hand, followed at two paces by his German wife, at two paces more by his two blond children. "Man Dieu," she murmured to a grinning policeman, "how the Americans have changed...
...photostatic service began in 1920. Its first equipment was a Leica camera, which the staff heard about through an advertisement in the CRIMSON...
Unlike artier cameramen, Carder-Bresson has never felt the need of a studio or a darkroom. He still reloads his Leica under the bed, washes his prints in the bathtub. "Shooting a picture," says he, "is like shooting rabbit or partridge. Before shooting you think, you contemplate, you look, look, look, look. Then you shoot...
Stummel Snipers. In Germany, the cigaret had opened new vistas of financiering for both victor and vanquished. For a few cartons Americans could furnish their apartments, buy exquisite furs and Leica cameras. German workers found it more profitable to take their daily pay in a handful of cigarets than a fistful of marks. But at $140 a carton, no German could afford to smoke his cigarets. Instead, he sniped stummels (butts), which were valued from 3? upwards, depending on length...
About seven years ago, the department started doing microstats. Starting with a second hand Leica camera, which had to be installed in a specially built frame-work to hold it, in place while in action, the work has grown in equipment to two automatic cameras which hold in hundred feet of firm as compared to the Leica's 35 frames...